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Determining

adjective

1.

Having the power or quality of deciding. Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative. "Cast the deciding vote" , "The determinative (or determinant) battle"

Determine

verb

(past & past part. determined; pres. part. determining)

1.

Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study. Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out. "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"

2.

Shape or influence; give direction to. Synonyms: influence, mold, regulate, shape. "Mold public opinion"

3.

Fix conclusively or authoritatively. Synonym: set.

4.

Decide upon or fix definitely. Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify. "Specify the parameters"

5.

Reach, make, or come to a decision about something. Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind.

6.

Fix in scope; fix the boundaries of.

7.

Settle conclusively; come to terms. Synonyms: settle, square off, square up.

8.

Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort. Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch. "See whether it works" , "Find out if he speaks Russian" , "Check whether the train leaves on time"

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... been reclining there waiting before his strained ears caught the sound of something like the rustling of silk shivering through the stillness, and he knew that at last it was coming? It might have been ten minutes, it might have been twenty—he had no means of determining—when he caught that first movement, and, peering through the slit of a partly opened eye, saw the appalling thing drag its huge bulk along the balcony, and, with squirming tentacles writhing, slide over ...

— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew

... give large space to grammatical Etymology, and demand much memorizing of definitions, rules, declensions, and conjugations, and much formal word parsing,—work of which a considerable portion is merely the invention of grammarians, and has little value in determining the pupil's use of language or in developing his reasoning faculties. This is a revival of the ...

— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg

... the pacifist movement itself in regard to the use of non-violent techniques of bringing about social change in group relationships. In its attempt to differentiate between them, it makes no pretense of determining which of the several pacifist positions is ethically most valid. Hence it is concerned with the application of non-violent principles in practice and their effectiveness in achieving group purposes, rather than with the philosophical ...

— Introduction to Non-Violence • Theodore Paullin

... on the necessity of enfranchising the negroes. Such prominent economists as the Webbs of England, Carroll D. Wright and Richard T. Ely of our own country state that woman's lack of the ballot is one of the determining causes in placing her in the ranks of the cheap laborer with all its attending evils. So placed she becomes a menace in industry and drags down the wages of the men. At the last convention of the American Federation ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... voyage is so exceedingly vague that we have no means of determining any of the places which were touched at. From the resemblance of the name in the text to Haiti, or Aiti, this island may ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III. • Robert Kerr

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